The nature of trauma in American novels
By: Michelle Balaev
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780810128194; 9780810128200
Subjects: Landscapes in literature; American fiction; Psychic trauma in literature; Memory in literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Trauma theory and its discontents: the potentials of pluralism; title: The role of place in remembering: Lan Cao's Monkey bridge; title: The traumatized protagonist and mythic landscapes: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony; title: Wilderness, loss, and cultural contexts in Edward Abbey's Black sun; title: Neocolonialism and polluted places in Robert Barclay's Melal.